Adams Sustainability Award Ceremony & Innovation Prize Pitch Competition

Join the CECCS in celebrating the community of sustainability-minded students, faculty and staff at the University of Toronto! This event will feature sustainability showcases from various groups on campus, opening remarks by President Meric Gertler, and our third annual Innovation Prize Pitch Competition made possible by the generous donation of Wendy Adams. Six finalist teams will compete for $25,500 in prizes in front of a panel of judges.

While the judges deliberate, we will present this year's winners of the Adams Sustainability Faculty, Staff and Student Grants, and the Sustainability Office’s Sustainable Action Awards. We will hear updates from past award recipients, and there will be opportunities for networking and showcase browsing.

1:00-5:00pm, Hart House Great Hall. Refreshments will be served.

Judges:

• Lisa DeMarco, Senior Partner and CEO, Resilient LLP; CECCS member

• Wil de Vega, Senior Advisor, Business Development Mitacs; CECCS Engagement & Partnerships Subcommittee member

• Prof. Sarah Cherki El Idrissi, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology, UTM

• Prof. Fiona Miller, Chair, Health Management Strategies, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; CECCS member and Research Subcommittee Chair

• Sue Talusan, Senior Manager, Climate and Cities, MaRS Discovery District

Event Schedule:

1:00-1:30pm: Showcases and networking

1:30-1:35pm: President's Welcome Remarks

1:35-3:00pm: Innovation Prize Pitch Competition

3:00-3:30pm: Showcases, Networking break, Refreshments

3:30-3:45pm: Sustainable Action Award Announcements

3:45-4:05pm: Adams Sustainability Faculty, Staff and Student Grant Announcements

4:05-4:20pm: Presentations from Past Grant Recipients

4:20-4:30pm: Innovation Prize Winners Announced and Closing

4:30-5:00pm: Networking/Showcase browsing

Hosted by the University of Toronto Committee for the Environment, Climate Change & Sustainability as part of our 2022-23 Adams Sustainability Celebration

Innovation Prize Finalists:

Inwit is Toronto’s first Zero Waste Takeout Ordering Platform. It is an innovative solution to single-use waste. A marketplace that encompasses a reusable container borrowing system, rewards system, and a food ordering platform, all tracked by NFC technology.

EVOLVERE Mental Health is a digital mental health platform that focuses on the student perspective and experience. Our dynamic, collaborative, and co-learning-based community can help YOU push past buzzwords and improve your mental health.

MissionE is a farmer-first SaaS platform recommending field-level optimal fertilizer applications for farmers. Not only does the platform help farmers save money on excess fertilizers, it also reduces nitrous oxide emissions while helping Canada stay on track with emissions targets.

Negup Chufa brings you indigenous superfoods directly from African smallholders using climate-smart and socially-just production. Our main products are gluten-free tigernut flour and oil from Ghana that fortify baked goods to aid digestion, lower blood sugar and improve cardiovascular health.

Sparked provides a handheld device for early risk detection of cardiovascular disease using a saliva sample. With the latest developments in nanotechnology and microfluidics, SPARKED removes the need for a traditional laboratory and offers screening results in your hands that are accurate, fast, and affordable.

Tuuli is the first integrated platform for building material data discovery and management. We cut the time it takes to select sustainable materials by 80%, empowering real estate developers, architects, and governments to fuel the booming green building market